FIRST LOOK CLINIC: GETTING STARTED WITH OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS SERVER 2007

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Module 1: Considerations for the Implementation of Office Communications Server 2007

This module will focus on the Office Communications Server architecture, server roles, component dependencies, and considerations for deploying and configuring Office Communications Server 2007.

Lessons

• Introduction to Office Communications Server 2007

• Office Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition

• Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition

• Office Communications Server 2007 Architecture

• Understanding Office Communications Server 2007 Server Roles

• Edge, Mediation, Archiving, CWA, A/V Conferencing, Web Conferencing

• Office Communications Server Prerequisites

• Active Directory, DNS, CA, PSTN Gateway, Load Balancer, HTTP Reverse Proxy, Exchange Server, SQL Server

• Office Communications Server 2007 Deployment Considerations

• Simple deployments

• Without external access

• With external access

• Enterprise deployments

• Collocated configurations

• Extended configurations

• Deploying Edge Servers

• Perimeter network server roles

• Firewall considerations

Module 2: Office Communications Server 2007 Instant Messaging Solutions

Office Communications Server 2007 supports an instant messaging (IM) solution that provides the users in your organization with one-to-one IM, group IM, and file transfer. This module focuses on the instant messaging features, Office Communicator clients, and the role of supporting server components in instant messaging solutions based on Office Communications Server 2007.

Lessons

• Introduction to Office Communicator Clients

• Office Communicator 2007

• Communicator Web Access

• Communicator Mobile

• Deployment Options and Administrative Controls for Office Communicator Clients

• Client Deployment Options

• Group PolicySMS

• MSI-based scripts

• Administrative Controls

• GPO

• In-band provisioning

• Rich Presence in Office Communications Server

• What Is Presence Information?

• What Are Presence Levels?

• Multimedia: Determining Presence Information Across Application Platforms

Lab : Sending an Instant Message

• Open Office Communicator 2007.

• Add a Contact.

• Send an Instant Message to a Contact.

• Configure Presence.

• After completing this session, students will be able to:

• Describe the IM functionality of the different Office Communicator clients.

• Identify the different methods available for deploying and administering the Office Communicator clients.

• Describe the benefits of the rich presence features of Office Communications Server.

Module 3: Office Communications Server 2007 Conferencing Solutions

If two or more employees need to meet in order to progress a project, collaborate on documents, or simply share ideas, Office Communications Server 2007 can enable them to do so by providing support for on-premise conferencing. This module focuses on how to implement an on-premise conferencing solution by using Office Communications Server 2007.

Lessons

• Comparing On-Premise Conferencing Solutions with Hosted Conferencing Solutions

• Considerations for choosing an on-premise conferencing solution

• What is Web Conferencing?

• What is Audio/Video Conferencing?

• Conferencing Clients Supported by Office Communications Server

• Conferencing features of Office Communicator

• Office Live Meeting 2007

• Office Live Meeting Add-in for Office Outlook 2007

• Overview of an On-Premise Conferencing Solution Based on Office Communications Server

• Conferencing Server Roles

• Front End Server

• Conferencing Pools

• Director

• Perimeter Servers

• What Is Federation?
  Overview

• How to establish federation

• Providing for High Availability

Lab : Creating an Unscheduled Web Conference by Using Office Communicator 2007

• Select contacts.

• Initiate an unscheduled Web conference.

• Collaborate during an on-premise Web conference.

After completing this session, students will be able to:

• Describe the features and advantages of on-premise conferencing solutions compared with hosted conferencing solutions.

• Identify the features of the on-premise conferencing clients.

• Describe the features of an on-premise conferencing solution based on Office Communications Server 2007.

Module 4: Office Communications Server 2007 Telephony Solutions

Office Communications Server 2007 supports both Private Branch Extension (PBX) telecommunications and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) telecommunications. To capitalize on SIP telecommunications functionalities, you can integrate Office Communications Server 2007 into your telephony solution.

Lessons

• Introducing Office Communications Server Telephony Features

• Office Communications Server Voice Capabilities

• Unified Communications

• Enterprise Voice

• Routing Concepts in Office Communications Server Telephony

• How the components interact to route a SIP to PSTN call

• Overview of an Enterprise Telephony Solution

• Office Communications Server Voice Components

• Simple Deployments for a Single Voice Location

• Simple Deployments for Regional Voice Locations

• Global Deployments

• Monitoring Office Communications Server 2007 Call Flow

• Overview of Protocol Monitoring in a Telephony Solution

• Multimedia: Call Flow Between Office Communicator Telephony Users

• Multimedia: Call Flow Between Office Communicator Telephony and PSTN Users

• Multimedia: Call Flow Between Office Communicator Telephony and PBX Users

• Monitoring Call Flow in Office Communications Server 2007 Telephony Environment

• Logging Tool

• Protocol Analysis Tool

• Archiving CDR Reporter

• What are Call Detail Records?

Lab : Capturing Office Communications Server 2007 Call Flow

• Capture call flow between Office Communicator clients

After completing this session, students will be able to:

• Describe the features of the basic components used in a telephony solution.

• Describe the functions supported by an Office Communications Server 2007 enterprise telephony solution.

• Identify the protocol capturing tools you can use to monitor call flow in an Office Communications Server 2007 telephony environment.

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